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Hardcover:

9781452107592 | Chronicle Books Llc, March 5, 2013, cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9780425278352 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, August 4, 2015), cover price $16.00

Library:

9781628999266 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, April 1, 2016), cover price $34.95

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Product Description: This title examines the remarkable life of reality television personality Andrew Zimmern. Readers will learn about Zimmerns family background, childhood, education, and his journey out of addiction to television stardom on the Travel Channels Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods America, and Andrew Zimmerns Bizarre World...read more

Library:

9781624038228 | Checkerboard Library, September 1, 2015, cover price $27.07 | About this edition: This title examines the remarkable life of reality television personality Andrew Zimmern.

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Product Description: A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor.   After putting her dream of opening her own restaurant on hold, Layne Mosler moves to Buenos Aires to write about food...read more

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9781101870310 | Pantheon Books, July 14, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor.
9780395365113, titled "Half Moon Street: Two Short Novels" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1984, cover price $2.98 | also contains Half Moon Street: Two Short Novels | About this edition: Two short novels, 'Doctor Slaughter' and 'Buried Alive,' offer a menacing, sinister study of double lives and their deadly implications

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Product Description: The New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven...cheerfully honest...warm and inclusive, just like her cooking” (USA TODAY)...read more

Hardcover:

9781410472045 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 10, 2014), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: In this funny, frank, tender memoir and "New York Times" bestseller, the author of "A Homemade Life" and the blog Orangette recounts how opening a restaurant sparked the first crisis of her young marriage.
9781451655094 | Simon & Schuster, May 6, 2014, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781451655117 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, May 26, 2015), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven.

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Product Description: My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat— from Trader Vic’s to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli—and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award winning writer Colman Andrews...read more

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9780062136473 | Ecco Pr, March 18, 2014, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat—from Trader Vic’s to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli—and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews.

Paperback:

9780062136480 | Ecco Pr, January 6, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat— from Trader Vic’s to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli—and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award winning writer Colman Andrews.

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Hardcover:

9780307886811 | Crown Pub, September 17, 2013, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780307886828 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, September 16, 2014), cover price $15.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9780804128315 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 17, 2013), cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple...read more

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9781580053914, titled "Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family and Identity" | Seal Pr, November 13, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple.

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Product Description: What do you do when you've just graduated from college and aren't sure what your next step should be? Jenna Weber, whose Eat, Live, Run blog has a huge following, turned to culinary school--but to become a food writer, not a chef...read more

Hardcover:

9781402777776 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, September 4, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: What do you do when you've just graduated from college and aren't sure what your next step should be?

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Product Description: In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus "Continental" cuisine. Authentic French, Italian, and Chinese foods were virtually unknown...read more
By Dick Hill (narrator)

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9781452658124 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 28, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland.

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Product Description: In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus "Continental" cuisine. Authentic French, Italian, and Chinese foods were virtually unknown...read more
By Dick Hill (narrator)

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9781452638126 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 28, 2012), cover price $83.99 | About this edition: In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland.

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Product Description: “A big juicy dish bubbling with scandals and rivalries, thickened with oft-told secrets, chock full of random bits as if a boxful of mementos had been upended into the stew. Dig in, and it is likely to persuade you that this Clark Kent of a food editor really did exert superpowers on the cultural life of twentieth-century America” (The Washington Post)...read more

Hardcover:

9781439191507 | Free Pr, May 8, 2012, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9781451698442 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 12, 2013), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “A big juicy dish bubbling with scandals and rivalries, thickened with oft-told secrets, chock full of random bits as if a boxful of mementos had been upended into the stew.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781452608129 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 28, 2012), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland.

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Product Description: For MFK Fisher, one of America's most-read and best-loved food writers, wine was a passion nurtured during her time in France and, later, California. This anthology, edited by acclaimed biographer Anne Zimmerman (An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M...read more

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9781402778131 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, May 1, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: For MFK Fisher, one of America's most-read and best-loved food writers, wine was a passion nurtured during her time in France and, later, California.

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Product Description: Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life “on the line” in the neighborhood restaurants—far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide—where most of us eat out when we eat out. It takes the kitchen memoir to a rough and reckless place...read more

Hardcover:

9780374289218 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 23, 2009), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: THE GRIT AND GLORY OF RESTAURANT LIFE, AS TOLD BY A SURVIVOR OF KITCHENS ACROSS AMERICA  Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life “on the line” in the restaurants, far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide—where most of us eat out most of the time.

Paperback:

9780374532277, titled "Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen" | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 6, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life “on the line” in the neighborhood restaurants—far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide—where most of us eat out when we eat out.

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Hardcover:

9781848871885 | Atlantic Books, March 1, 2010, cover price $27.95

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By Amanda Hesser (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780520255555 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, July 3, 2008), cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780520261686 | Univ of California Pr, October 20, 2009, cover price $34.95

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A memoir based on the author's life-long love affair with food, men, and wine traces her experimentation with the sensual nature of both food and sex before and throughout the course of her career as a restaurant critic for New York magazine, during which she met such culinary giants as Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, in an account complemented by some of the author's favorite recipes. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780446576994 | Grand Central Pub, April 4, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In 1968, Gael Greene became restaurant critic of the fledgling New York magazine.

Paperback:

9780446695107 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, April 11, 2007), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A memoir based on the author's life-long love affair with food, men, and wine traces her experimentation with the sensual nature of both food and sex before and throughout the course of her career as a restaurant critic for New York magazine, during which she met such culinary giants as Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, in an account complemented by some of the author's favorite recipes.

Miscellaneous:

9780759515338 | Grand Central Pub, April 4, 2006, cover price $9.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781594832079 | Abridged edition (Hachette Audio, April 4, 2006), cover price $24.98 | About this edition: A memoir based on the author's life-long love affair with food, men, and wine traces her experimentation with the sensual nature of both food and sex throughout the course of her career as a restaurant critic for 'New York' magazine.

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A top restaurant critic discusses such topics as the origins of her passion for travel and food writing, her career with The New York Times and other respected publications, her efforts to balance her work and family responsibilities, and her battle with weight. By the author of From My Mother's Kitchen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780786269648 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 19, 2004), cover price $29.45 | About this edition: A restaurant critic discusses such topics as the origins of her passion for travel and food writing, her career with the 'New York Times' and other publications, her efforts to balance her work and family responsibilities, and her battle with weight.
9780060501099 | Harpercollins, May 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A restaurant critic discusses such topics as the origins of her passion for travel and food writing, her career with the 'New York Times' and other publications, her efforts to balance her work and family responsibilities, and her battle with weight.

Paperback:

9780060501105 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 2006), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A top restaurant critic discusses such topics as the origins of her passion for travel and food writing, her career with The New York Times and other respected publications, her efforts to balance her work and family responsibilities, and her battle with weight.

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A new installment in the Gourmet editor-in-chief's series of memoirs recounts her visits to some of the world's most acclaimed restaurants, both as herself and as an anonymous diner in disguise, to offer insight into how her dining experiences changed according to her character and whether or not she was recognized. By the author of Comfort Me with Apples. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781594200311 | Penguin USA, April 7, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The editor-in-chief of 'Gourmet' recounts her visits to some of the world's most acclaimed restaurants, both as herself and as an anonymous diner in disguise, to offer insight into the differences in her dining experiences.

Paperback:

9780143036616 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 28, 2006), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The editor-in-chief of 'Gourmet' recounts her visits to some of the world's most acclaimed restaurants, both as herself and as an anonymous diner in disguise, to offer insight into the differences in her dining experiences.

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A ten-time James Beard Award-winning food critic for GQ retraces his culinary quests throughout the world, from his failure at Paul Bocuse's cooking school in Paris and dinner escapades with an unimpressed Sharon Stone to his reviews of communist nation restaurants and his visit to Louis Farrakhan's restaurant in Chicago. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780060586294 | Harpercollins, November 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The noted food critic describes his early interest in food, his first writing assignments, and his dining experiences in the United States and in other countries where he has sampled some of the world's greatest cuisine.

Paperback:

9780060586300 | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 1, 2005), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A ten-time James Beard Award-winning food critic for GQ retraces his culinary quests throughout the world, from his failure at Paul Bocuse's cooking school in Paris and dinner escapades with an unimpressed Sharon Stone to his reviews of communist nation restaurants and his visit to Louis Farrakhan's restaurant in Chicago.

This book begins in New York in 1951 where Olney, a struggling artist, waited tables in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris and weaves a magical description of food that becomes so real—as if you were actually there with Olney. It is a long-awaited story of the man who brought the simplicity of French cooking to the United States, and a statement about one of the finest and most important food professionals in the world.

Hardcover:

9781883283209 | Brick Tower Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This book begins in New York in 1951 where Olney, a struggling artist, waited tables in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris and weaves a magical description of food that becomes so real—as if you were actually there with Olney.

Paperback:

9781883283438 | Brick Tower Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Jeannette Ferrary, a food writer for the New York Times and author of M. F. K Fisher and Me, recounts her life as it relates to food. Contains portraits of America's food-world celebrities--Julia Child, Alice Waters, Craig Claiborne, Pierre Franey, and Ruth Reichl, to name a few...read more

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9781880284780 | Daniel & Daniel Pub, October 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Jeannette Ferrary, a food writer for the New York Times and author of M.

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In this poetic, sensitive memoir, M. F. K. Fisher traces her life from birth through childhood into adulthood through memories of her loving family and their lives as outsiders in the Quaker community of Whittier, California. Recalling the people, passions, sounds, and scents of her childhood, with its kindnesses and quiet cruelties, Fisher also portrays her developing interests in literature, food, and cooking. Elegantly and invitingly written, Among Friends demonstrates the writer’s belief that “every lesson, every lecture listened to, must be interpreted into a personal dialect of human language, and that is what I keep trying to do.

Paperback:

9781593760243 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2004, cover price $15.00
9780865471160 | Reprint edition (North Point Pr, January 1, 1984), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In this poetic, sensitive memoir, M.

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A remarkable romantic love story describes how the author lost her first husband to terminal cancer after twenty-five years of marriage and how she met a new love, thanks to the deathbed promise and intervention of her late husband. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781580632003 | Renaissance Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes how the author lost her first husband to terminal cancer after twenty-five years of marriage and how she met a new love, thanks to the deathbed promise and intervention of her late husband.

Paperback:

9780312322458 | Reprint edition (Griffin, October 1, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Describes how the author lost her first husband to terminal cancer after twenty-five years of marriage and how she met a new love, thanks to the deathbed promise and intervention of her late husband.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559276689, titled "Send Me Someone: A True Story of Love Here and Hereafter" | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Praise for Between Bites Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist"An incredible journey of gastronomy by one of America's greatest journalists. Wow!"--Chef Emeril Lagasse"For anyone interested in disciplined hedonism, this gripping book reminds us where real style comes from and how it is sustained...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780471214205 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 18, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: With a mixture of narrative and popular recipes, the author reflects upon his life as a culinary expert as he attempts to find the origins of favorite dishes.

Paperback:

9780471448273 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 2003), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Praise for Between Bites Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist"An incredible journey of gastronomy by one of America's greatest journalists.

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